1 GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes
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9 * Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
13 * git will build on AIX better than before now.
15 * core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
16 filesystems that are not case sensitive.
18 * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
19 sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
23 * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
24 available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
25 the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
26 files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
31 * "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a
32 repository with insane number of refs.
34 * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
35 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
36 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized.
38 * Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
39 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
41 (usability, bells and whistles)
43 * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
44 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes.
46 * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
48 * "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
49 does its work on a detached HEAD.
51 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
52 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
53 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
55 * "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
56 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
59 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
61 * "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
62 somebody else's changes.
64 * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
67 * "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
69 * "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
70 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
73 * "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
75 * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
77 * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
78 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
79 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
81 * "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
82 graph at the left margin of the output.
84 * "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
85 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
87 * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
89 * "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
91 * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
94 * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
95 by munging the commit log message.
97 * new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
99 * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
103 * "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about
104 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire.
110 All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
111 this release, unless otherwise noted.
117 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
118 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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